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4XX Crawl Issues

I am really frustrated. I spend 100 bucks a month for this service and the first thing I try does not seem to be working.

The crawl ran on my site came up with 5 4XX errors. I have looked at all the refering pages and do not have one link going to the pages they say they are going too. WTF is going on here. I even looked in the source and the HTML is fine. Has anyone been having this issue?

Hi, it's quite possible that the 404 errors you are seeing are from historic links that were once active.

Just because those pages no longer exist on your site and are not linked to from it, doesn't mean to say that they are no longer indexed by a crawler which could include Google. A crawler will store old links in its index for sometime after they are no longer active.

By seeing that these links are indexed even though they are no longer current, it gives you the opportunity to create 301 redirects to the pages you now want the to represent and to encourage the crawlers to update their index for them.

Thank you Peter, I guess that is the silver lining, to just have a 301 redirect and call it case closed.

Part of what gets me confused is I can not even find the links on the pages it tells me. So it says my main page www.minutewomeninc.com is the reefer to a bad link. I can not find any link close to this kind on the page. It must be an old link I took down at some point.

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